Tropescilloscope: Mundane Made Awesome

Ordinary, mediocre and everyday tasks made EPIC. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Amusing Injuries Stock Footage Real Life Idiot Ball My Greatest Failure Death Seeker Big Brother Instinct Historical Villain Upgrade Serious Business Works Set in World War II Bland-Name Product Vampire Fiction Ominous Latin Chanting Five-Man Band Crucified Hero Shot Fat Bastard Undying Loyalty Tempting Fate An Aesop Market-Based Title Rich Bitch Obfuscating Stupidity Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Took a Level in Badass Token Minority What the Hell, Hero? Mistaken for Gay Red Herring Broken Aesop Trailers Always Spoil Motor Mouth Here We Go Again! Disney Villain Death Cloudcuckoolander Sci-Fi Horror Expy Humans Are Bastards "Awesome McCool" Name Properly Paranoid Gold Digger Once More, with Clarity! Bury Your Gays In the Back Let's Get Dangerous! Animal Title Index Drowning My Sorrows Bar Brawl Fish out of Water Bullying a Dragon Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Maybe Ever After A.I. Is a Crapshoot Historical-Domain Character Death by Irony Shout-Out The Voiceless No-Sell Scare Chord Dramedy Dropped a Bridge on Him Break the Cutie Artistic License – Gun Safety Not Even Bothering with the Accent "Well Done, Son!" Guy Expository Hairstyle Change Age Lift Humiliation Conga Green-Eyed Monster Rewatch Bonus Epic Fail Historical In-Joke Psycho for Hire The Alleged Car Easily Forgiven Instant Death Bullet Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Big "NO!" Intrepid Reporter Men Are the Expendable Gender Time Skip Shower Scene Rule of Symbolism German Films The Starscream Smoking Is Cool The Oner Slasher Movie Skewed Priorities Suddenly SHOUTING! I Have Your Wife Storming the Castle Dressing as the Enemy Slashed Throat Bring My Brown Pants Flipping the Bird Guns Akimbo Half the Man He Used to Be This Is Gonna Suck The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Handicapped Badass The Cavalry Adaptation Distillation Villainous Breakdown Brick Joke Getting Crap Past the Radar What Happened to the Mouse? Corrupt Corporate Executive Cat Scare I Did What I Had to Do Hope Spot Bavarian Fire Drill Attempted Rape Faux Affably Evil Crazy Jealous Guy Did Not Get the Girl British Films Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Made of Explodium Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Bait-and-Switch The Ghost Zombie Stories Totally Radical Kill 'em All Death by Adaptation Sealed Evil in a Can Fatal Flaw Betty and Veronica You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Our Vampires Are Different As Long as It Sounds Foreign Ax-Crazy Berserk Button The Alcoholic The Quiet One Failed a Spot Check Horror Comedy Immune to Bullets Homage Laser-Guided Karma Soundtrack Dissonance Refuge in Audacity Only in It for the Money Darker and Edgier Self-Deprecation Sequel Escalation Non-Indicative Name Beauty Is Never Tarnished Important Haircut Calling the Old Man Out Fourth Date Marriage Light Is Not Good Love Triangle Catch-Phrase Deconstruction Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Get Out! Whole Plot Reference Badass Bookworm Chekhov's Gun Parental Incest Together in Death Visual Pun Manipulative Bastard Dramatic Gun Cock Leaning on the Fourth Wall Mr. Fanservice Combat Pragmatist Bloodless Carnage For the Evulz Bound and Gagged Overly Long Gag Black Dude Dies First Everyone Has Standards Determinator Very Loosely Based on a True Story Not Using the "Z" Word Mystery and Detective Films Faking the Dead Older Than They Look Truth in Television Black and Gray Morality Fanservice Extra Dull Surprise Villain Opening Scene Martial Arts Movie Shown Their Work Ironic Echo Tap on the Head Adaptation Dye-Job Take That! Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The Lost Lenore Gender Flip Body Horror Genre Throwback Deadpan Snarker And the Adventure Continues Gone Horribly Right Vacation Films The Un-Reveal Adapted Out Blatant Lies Flashback Nice Guy One Steve Limit Ship Tease Didn't Think This Through Despair Event Horizon Eye Scream The Vamp Genre Savvy Double-Meaning Title Wicked Cultured Dumb Blonde Italian Films Bad Boss Dissonant Serenity Pre-Mortem One-Liner Morality Pet Scenery Porn Narrator Bittersweet Ending Dwindling Party Dark Is Not Evil Anachronic Order Insane Troll Logic Oh, Crap! Pet the Dog The Film of the Book Laughing Mad Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Affectionate Parody Knight Templar Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Domestic Abuse Becoming the Mask Slap-Slap-Kiss Japanese Films Papa Wolf Eiffel Tower Effect Drill Sergeant Nasty Downer Ending Villain Protagonist The Dragon Gainax Ending Yandere Aluminum Christmas Trees Unresolved Sexual Tension Jerkass Has a Point Your Cheating Heart Demoted to Extra Brother–Sister Incest Unreliable Narrator Mighty Whitey Pretty Little Headshots Empathic Environment Ms. Fanservice Belligerent Sexual Tension Love at First Sight Science Fiction Films Shoot the Shaggy Dog Cool Old Lady Unwitting Instigator of Doom Stuff Blowing Up Scary Black Man Malevolent Masked Men Film Noir Adaptational Badass Taking You with Me Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Meaningful Background Event Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Disproportionate Retribution Rape as Drama Frame-Up Freeze-Frame Bonus Dirty Coward Armor-Piercing Question Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor One-Man Army Artistic License – Biology Silent Movie Pay Evil unto Evil B-Movie Death of a Child Match Cut NO INDOOR VOICE Breaking the Fourth Wall Evil Is Petty Shell-Shocked Veteran Drives Like Crazy Car Fu O.O.C. Is Serious Business Sole Survivor No Celebrities Were Harmed Ass Shove Composite Character Vitriolic Best Buds Fiery Redhead Leitmotif Christmas Movies Index Creative Closing Credits Pretty in Mink Alliterative Name Heel Realization Never My Fault Those Two Guys Would Hurt a Child Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Hypocritical Humor Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Adorkable Nice Hat Fatal Family Photo Children Are Innocent Sassy Black Woman Stalker with a Crush Fingore Mama Bear Karmic Death Black Comedy Rape Bunny-Ears Lawyer Four-Temperament Ensemble Unspoken Plan Guarantee Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Jump Scare Villain Song Hooker with a Heart of Gold Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Major Injury Underreaction The Big Guy Catapult Nightmare Fan Disservice As the Good Book Says... Amoral Attorney Plot Hole Antagonist Title Punny Name Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Cold-Blooded Torture Contrived Coincidence Chekhov's Gunman Up to Eleven Henpecked Husband Sexy Discretion Shot Exact Words Logo Joke Eyepatch of Power Canadian Movies Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Actor Allusion Off with His Head! The Cameo Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Fainting Parental Substitute Air-Vent Passageway Comically Missing the Point Curse Cut Short Cowboy Cop In Medias Res Action Prologue Eagleland Dark Reprise Every Car Is a Pinto Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The Mole Soft Glass Hong Kong Films Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Big-Bad Ensemble Evil Is Hammy Jerkass Protagonist Title Names to Run Away from Really Fast Blackmail Depraved Bisexual Bond One-Liner Even Evil Has Loved Ones Central Theme The End... Or Is It? Hero of Another Story Beware the Nice Ones Random Events Plot Show Within a Show Not What It Looks Like Victoria's Secret Compartment Those Wacky Nazis Sequel Hook Offscreen Moment of Awesome Only Sane Man Take a Third Option Posthumous Character Destination Defenestration The X of Y Sports Stories Rule of Cool Adaptation Expansion Obviously Evil Retcon Babies Ever After Danny Peary Cult Movies List Red Shirt Noodle Incident Hero Antagonist Happily Married It Will Never Catch On What You Are in the Dark No Ending Cat Fight Crapsack World Freudian Excuse The Dreaded Badass Normal Recycled IN SPACE! The Hero Hell Is That Noise Parental Neglect The Place Mercy Kill Stepford Smiler Redshirt Army Jerk with a Heart of Gold Diabolus ex Machina Rousing Speech Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Sadistic Choice Character Development Mexican Standoff Irony Put on a Bus Animal Motifs He Who Fights Monsters One-Word Title Left the Background Music On The Ditz Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Death Glare Improbable Weapon User Dirty Cop Running Gag Bloody Hilarious Spiritual Successor Nothing Is Scarier I Need a Freaking Drink The Musical Heroic BSoD The Casanova Stylistic Suck Call-Forward Enemy Mine Early-Bird Cameo Woman in White Riddle for the Ages Spiteful Spit Meaningful Name The Smart Guy Race Against the Clock Manic Pixie Dream Girl Hate Sink Hollywood Darkness Mood Whiplash Advertised Extra Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Big Applesauce Kick the Son of a Bitch Sir Swears-a-Lot Framing Device All Men Are Perverts Extreme Doormat Mad Scientist Title Drop Police are Useless Fun with Acronyms Funny Background Event Artistic License – Physics Anguished Declaration of Love timeperiod N-Word Privileges Greater-Scope Villain Wounded Gazelle Gambit Shipper on Deck Not So Different The Dog Bites Back Plucky Comic Relief Pyrrhic Victory Your Head A-Splode Made of Iron Music Stories She Cleans Up Nicely Authority Equals Asskicking Guile Hero Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Offscreen Teleportation Accidental Misnaming Moment Killer Eldritch Abomination Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Daylight Horror Gory Discretion Shot Psychological Thriller After the End Hoist by His Own Petard Reasonable Authority Figure Taking the Bullet Cain and Abel Imagine Spot Cool Old Guy Anti-Villain Genre Shift Shut Up, Hannibal! Asshole Victim Developing Doomed Characters Establishing Character Moment A Minor Kidroduction World of Ham Wretched Hive Monumental Damage Sanity Slippage Vomit Indiscretion Shot Badass in a Nice Suit The Lancer Small Name, Big Ego Annoying Younger Sibling Evil vs. Evil The Atoner Damsel in Distress Evil Plan Never Found the Body Interrupted Suicide Casting Gag Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Abhorrent Admirer Broken Bird Femme Fatale Male Frontal Nudity The Load Manly Tears The Remake Well-Intentioned Extremist Action Girl Dirty Old Man Missing Mom Captain Obvious Man on Fire Action Survivor Playing Gertrude An Axe to Grind Documentary Really Gets Around Break the Haughty Biopic Kick the Dog Badass Grandpa Funny Foreigner Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Mafia Extremely Short Timespan MacGuffin Adaptational Heroism Coming-of-Age Story '80s Hair Reality Has No Subtitles Gorn She's Got Legs Dark Action Girl Jitter Cam 20 Minutes into the Future Butt-Monkey Television Movie Index Accidental Murder Affably Evil Heel–Face Turn Fake Shemp Pimped-Out Dress Covers Always Lie Red Eyes, Take Warning Continuity Nod Auto Erotica Dying Moment of Awesome Bond Villain Stupidity Villain with Good Publicity Reality Ensues Last-Name Basis Chase Scene Military and Warfare Films Deliberately Monochrome Facial Horror Aside Glance Redemption Equals Death Film Noir Index Decoy Protagonist Dramatic Irony Say My Name Heroes Want Redheads Earn Your Happy Ending Rule of Funny Twist Ending Meaningful Echo Defrosting Ice Queen No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Cool Car Villain Ball Needs Wiki Magic Love Creator Cameo Video Credits The Reveal The Bully Costume Porn Big Eater Film Series Lock and Load Montage Dogged Nice Guy Heroic Sacrifice Stealth Pun The Brute No Antagonist Large Ham Intergenerational Friendship Artistic License – Law Epic Movie Big Bad Bilingual Bonus The Bad Guy Wins Awesome, but Impractical The '60s I'm a Humanitarian Does Not Like Shoes Paper-Thin Disguise Sinister Minister Brutal Honesty Fantastic Racism And Starring Big Bad Duumvirate A Father to His Men Super Strength Took a Level in Jerkass Romantic Comedy Abusive Parents Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Arranged Marriage Almost Kiss Killed Mid-Sentence Beard of Evil Only a Flesh Wound Pragmatic Adaptation Darkest Hour Mooks There Is No Kill Like Overkill Pragmatic Villainy Brainless Beauty The '50s Superhero Bad "Bad Acting" Smug Snake Black Best Friend Would Hit a Girl Bald of Evil Punch-Clock Villain Implacable Man Scenery Gorn Arc Words Fire-Forged Friends Country Matters And I Must Scream Meet Cute Not So Above It All Evil Sounds Deep Hidden Depths Department of Redundancy Department Tagline Make It Look Like an Accident Final Girl Broken Pedestal Wham Line Suspiciously Specific Denial Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Better to Die than Be Killed Naïve Newcomer Ungrateful Bastard Spell My Name with an "S" More Dakka It's All About Me Back from the Dead Chewing the Scenery Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Face Death with Dignity Foil Setting Update Reckless Gun Usage Same Language Dub Lampshade Hanging Not Quite Dead Historical Hero Upgrade Big Fancy House Line-of-Sight Name The Chick Slasher Smile Bare Your Midriff Eureka Moment Author Avatar Distracted by the Sexy Mr. Exposition Retired Badass Foreshadowing All Just a Dream The Faceless Spared by the Adaptation All There in the Manual Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Informed Ability The Power of Love Suspiciously Similar Substitute For Want of a Nail The Stoic Corpsing From Bad to Worse Word of God Evil Laugh Karma Houdini Heterosexual Life-Partners A God Am I Ambiguously Gay Dutch Angle Too Dumb to Live Badass Boast It Can Think Cluster F-Bomb Red Right Hand Public Domain Feature Films Anyone Can Die Mugging the Monster Leave the Camera Running Worthy Opponent Ghost Fiction Improbable Aiming Skills Closed Circle Face–Heel Turn Dual Wielding Rated M for Manly All There in the Script Artistic License – Military Loophole Abuse Hypocrite Loads and Loads of Characters Actually Pretty Funny Bolivian Army Ending Grey and Gray Morality Improvised Weapon The Ace Serial Killer Blood Knight Sacrificial Lion The '70s Mind Screw Badass Longcoat Deus ex Machina Cool Guns Knife Nut Those Two Bad Guys Anachronism Stew Captain Ersatz Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy All Girls Want Bad Boys Evil-Detecting Dog Translation Convention Camera Abuse A Date with Rosie Palms Rasputinian Death Adaptation Name Change Bottomless Magazines Politically Incorrect Villain Never Trust a Trailer Throwing Your Sword Always Works Only One Name Revenge Star-Crossed Lovers May–December Romance Have a Gay Old Time Book-Ends Blood from the Mouth Romantic False Lead Horror Films Foregone Conclusion Demonic Possession Ambiguous Ending Wrong Genre Savvy The Stoner Double Entendre The Great Depression Conspicuous CG Agony of the Feet Even Evil Has Standards Insistent Terminology Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Wham Shot Chiaroscuro Rule of Three Fantasy Films Roaring Rampage of Revenge Psychopathic Manchild Obstructive Bureaucrat Author Appeal Police Brutality La Résistance Hair-Trigger Temper Real Life Writes the Plot Woman Scorned In Name Only Kill It with Fire Arch-Enemy Good Is Not Nice Jerk Jock Ugly Guy, Hot Wife As Himself Unusually Uninteresting Sight Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Dark and Troubled Past BFG My Beloved Smother Fanservice Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Bloodier and Gorier Exactly What It Says on the Tin Product Placement Unusual Euphemism Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Cruel and Unusual Death Peek-a-Boo Corpse True Companions Action Genre Tranquil Fury Stealth Hi/Bye Thriller As You Know The Chessmaster Gilligan Cut All for Nothing "The Reason You Suck" Speech Daddy's Girl Early Installment Weirdness Credits Gag The '90s No OSHA Compliance An Arm and a Leg Vomit Discretion Shot Friend to All Children Training Montage Madness Mantra It's Personal Boom, Headshot! Call-Back Anti-Hero Mundane Made Awesome He Knows Too Much Cassandra Truth Celebrity Paradox Defiant to the End Evil Counterpart The '80s Death by Sex Due to the Dead Artistic License – History Hollywood Law You Have Failed Me Not So Stoic Fate Worse than Death My God, What Have I Done? Disappeared Dad No Name Given Famous Last Words Adaptational Attractiveness Disguised in Drag folderlabel Manchild Shirtless Scene Russian Films Parental Abandonment Precision F-Strike Ascended Extra Adult Fear Spanner in the Works Curb-Stomp Battle You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Animated Credits Opening "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Batman Gambit Kids Are Cruel Adults Are Useless Married to the Job Artistic License – Geography Camp Gay Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Deal with the Devil Apocalypse How Re-Cut Insult Backfire Straight Gay I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Silence Is Golden The Hero Dies Black Comedy Chekhov's Skill The Sociopath Grievous Bottley Harm Neck Lift Index of Film Westerns Reality Is Unrealistic Neck Snap Be Careful What You Wish For War Is Hell Overprotective Dad Naked People Are Funny Lighter and Softer Beta Couple Creepy Child The Smurfette Principle Cool Shades Poor Communication Kills Australian Movies Determinator aka: The Determinator Does This Remind You of Anything? Honor Before Reason Evil Brit Novelization Only Known by Their Nickname Drugs Are Bad I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Off-into-the-Distance Ending Award-Bait Song Outrun the Fireball How We Got Here Red Oni, Blue Oni Our Zombies Are Different Retirony Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Alas, Poor Villain Based on a True Story "Shaggy Dog" Story French Films Gratuitous English Race Lift Big Damn Heroes Adaptational Villainy Male Gaze Deliberate Values Dissonance Mythology Gag Disney Death Ripped from the Headlines Room Full of Crazy Ambiguous Disorder Toplessness from the Back The Stinger Bi the Way Groin Attack Dies Wide Open Driven to Suicide Bowdlerise You Killed My Father Card-Carrying Villain Crazy-Prepared Alpha Bitch Kubrick Stare Canon Foreigner From Nobody to Nightmare